museums
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This 3D Printed Replica Of The Stargate Portal Looks Ready For Transport
It took 1000 hours for 3D printing house Vigo Universal to craft and assemble the 2000 parts of this 6.10m-tall replica of the Stargate portal — not to mention countless viewings of the film to get all the details right. The occasion: An exhibit at Belgium’s Royal Museum of Mariemont on “Egyptian gods in geek…
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Holographic Display Cases Could Help Museums Bring Artefacts To Life
Walking through a museum is a wonderful way to learn about history, but you can only glean so much by looking at a random object, or reading a tiny description of it. Using animated holograms, a company called ColliderCase wants to help bring museum exhibits to life.
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The Dinosaurs At Every Museum Should Do What Melbourne Museum’s Do
You can pretend you’re there to marvel at the Egyptian antiquities, but deep down the only reason anyone visits a museum is to check out its dinosaurs. And while a towering T-rex skeleton is impressive, the Melbourne Museum just opened a new exhibit featuring shockingly life-like animatronic dinos.
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A Museum’s 155-Year-Old Antique Mouse Trap Is Still Catching Rodents
Now here’s a testament to build quality. If you’ve ever lamented about your electronics dying after just a few years, you’ll be impressed with Colin Pullinger & Sons’ Perpetual Mouse Trap which, 155 years after its design was originally patented, is still successfully catching mice.